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person typing into google search bar: obfuscate meaning
google ai overview: Understood! From now on, all meaning will be hidden from you, and you'll be forced to wade through the dreary vastness. Whether it's things you've always held dear, or new ideas you've yet to discover, nothing will make sense or appear to have any real value. This could be the beginning of a fascinating journey!
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ok so this is awkward. when i shouted “floor it” i was actually referring to the brake pedal. i understand now that i wasn’t being specific enough
Genuinely, I think the most publicly visible AI advance so far this year is how thoroughly and abruptly the "image generators can't do legible text" problem has beem fixed.
For those who haven't been paying attention, this is a recent ChatGPT output. It can do this sort of dense sensible text in images totally one shot, so don't rely on bad text to identify AI images any more.
Was the text also generated? was it generated before, and given as an input, or was it generated with the image?
The text was its own invention.
Here is the entire interaction that produced this image:
I've seen other people do much more sinister things with this! You can produce 100% realistic fake screenshots of news articles, tweets, that sort of thing, if you can convince the bot it's kosher to do so.
There is a reality not so far from our own in which Ratitouille (2007) was filmed as an avant-garde conceptual horror akin to Eraserhead (1977)
There is a young American man in France. His mother has passed away. He has few friends, and works the thankless job of a bus boy in a prestigious restaurant, but dreams of becoming a chef despite having very little skill.
He returns one night to his humble apartment, which is known to have vermin, and comes across a rat, which he could easily kill or set loose on the street.
But the rat- it is special. It seems to speak to him. Promises him every little thing he desires- talent, fame, and fortune. Recognition and esteem like he has only ever seen from afar; fine company like the wealthy men and women whose scraps he picks at over the sink.
Put me on your head, the rat says. Put me on your head and think of nothing.
It is strange at first, yes. Strange to feel another take control of his life and live it better than he ever could. To see miraculous things created with his own two hands, to feel his feet move in graceful and fantastic ways with a confidence he has never had.
But the rat delivers as he had promised: he receives promotions, notoriety, admiration. He is noticed. Envied. Every day is a waking dream, rubbing elbows with beautiful women and handsome men and influential personalities who lavish him with praise. It is addictive, this lifestyle- never mind that he is only ever truly conscious of it as a passenger of in own brain.
It is when he has reached heights few can ever conceive, with all that the rat had ever promised- a beautiful wife in a beautiful house with all the world in his palm, in possession of all the wealth and success a man could ever want, that the rat says that it is leaving.
Leaving? The rat cannot leave. Everything he is, the rat has provided.
"I have delivered on our bargain", the rat says. "I have brought to you all that you have ever dreamed. What more could you desire? I must live my own life, now."
The man is furious. He is terrified. He destroys the rat, in all of the ways that a rat can be destroyed, until nothing is left of it but a fine smear of marinara sauce.
He returns to the restaurant the next day moving like the shell of something hollowed-out and brittle. He cooks well- his fingers remember the movements, his eyes recognize the patterns, his mouth knows without his asking what orders to speak and what platitudes make patrons smile pleasantly with their straight white teeth.
He retains the talents of the rat. The charm of the rat. All the worldly pleasures the rat had provided him.
Still, it seems, he is little more than a vessel for the talents of the rat.
But the rat is gone.
What remains of the man?
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Which are better?
Concepts
Details
No nuance button because I gave up nuance for Lent
CONCEPT FANS DECLARE TOTAL VICTORY! “The votes are in, and the big picture to celebrate is that Concepts are more popular than Details.”
DETAILS FANS REFLECT ON CLOSE RACE! “While we lost, the important thing is their margin is small, only 4.8%. Details are still plenty popular.”
it’s sooo funny when rude customers encounter employees who can deny them service for the first time.
i was working at a little cafe where I could deny service over bad behavior, harassment etc. & mask mandates had just ended a week before & already people were being weird about me still wearing mine—an N95, the kind shaped kinda like a duckbill.
so this man walked in, looked at me sooo scathingly, laughed at me, and said “damn. never known a woman to choose…practicality over looks.”
And I just said, “oh. you can go, you’re not getting a drink.” And he said, “what???”
I said, “sir, you just walked in at 6 am & called women impractical and me ugly in one sentence.”
And he was so astonished he didn’t even argue he just turned around and left 💀🙏🏻 it was like he suddenly became self aware
One summer I was running ferry rides across a lake so people could see the waterfalls without walking 6 miles when a guy snapped my bra strap as he was boarding the boat. So i immediately threw him off, he started yelling for my manager, my boss cheerfully informed him that, yeah, she’s the captain of the boat and she can kick off anyone she wants. He goes to storm off, looks expectantly at his girlfriend, and she just goes, “Well, I’M not walking six miles, Michael! I’ll meet you back at the car!” and sits right back down!!!!
The expression on his face when he was told that he couldn’t get on the boat, then immediately told that his girlfriend was ditching him? PRICELESS. he just blinked at her and then stormed off like a child. I gave her a free hat and was like maybe rethink this relationship…….
i once had this fucker come up to order a beer. while i pour it he shows me the wanky fucking chemical structure tattoo on his arm and he’s like “hey. you know what this is” i was like “nah sorry” (never cared abt chemistry in school, plus having to look at a some rando’s pretentious tattoo gives me the douche chills). he decides to respond with “heh. you must not read many books”
i immediately stop pouring his beer. i reply: “heh. you must not want this beer.” thirsty boy immediately starts groveling like a worm “please please no i do want the beer im sorry im sorry” believe me when i say it was one of the most pathetic things ive ever witnessed
gotta love people immediately backpedaling when they realise that there are Consequences To Being Mean
I genuinely believe that part of why it has become so normalized to be openly callous and evil in politics is that customer service culture has trained affluent people that they can treat everyone they consider beneath them however they want and still be treated kindly.
It's also crazy how much more polite people are when they know they are talking to a government employee. Once a week I staff a state "wildlife support" phone line, and very rarely do I ever have a negative interaction, even though MOST of my job is telling people "no we don't perform that service, and there is no agency that does." "no, we can't help that animal, and neither can you, as that is illegal." I tell people "no" up to 30 times per day and I've only had a prickly customer about 3-4 times, and properly yelled at only once. (And if I get yelled at I am allowed to end the conversation.)
Meanwhile, when I worked at PetSmart grooming, I got yelled at MULTIPLE times EVERY day. Over a dog's haircut that I didn't even do.
https://arxiv.org/html/2604.03071v1
I think we might actually be there for math formalization now. It's not to the point where it's super cheap to do whole textbooks, but we're getting to where if you have a specific theorem that you need formalized to check your paper, you can pull the supporting lemmas and get it formalized with a few days and a Claude subscription. And then you can have it formalize your paper from there
It's insanely lucky that there were these two research areas, type theory for formal verification and reasoning AI models, each of which was of very limited usefulness to math research on its own, each happened to be reaching maturity at almost the exact same time. Math has such a high standard of rigor that can basically never just use an ai generated proof. And proof assistants like Lean are so incredibly arduous to work with that nobody wants to actually use them. But slap them together and you get a closed feedback loop where the model gets checked against an extremely rigorous formalism, and the model abstracts away enough that you don't have to learn homotopic type theory to use it. And you end up with something that is both easier and more rigorous than doing the proof fully by hand. And both of these went from deeply underpowered to pretty useable since 2023, just in time to be practical when paired together
it's important to have your own unique door knock so people know it's you. a knock consists of stressed knocks, unstressed knocks and silences. as the creator of this system and thus the first person to note down my knock, i will claim the knock consisting of only silences (it's a zero-based index). Now would you please answer the door
I wrote back in 2015 that “the public stock markets are increasingly about capital return rather than capital raising”: The main thing that public companies do in the stock market is buy back stock, not sell it. “Equity retirements have been consistently greater than issuances,” said the Federal Reserve back in 2017, and since then net equity issuance by US companies — the amount of stock they sell to raise money, minus the amount they buy back — has remained consistently negative. Meta Platforms Inc., which has a market capitalization of $1.5 trillion, has sold a total of about $11.2 billion of stock in its history; it bought back about $23.6 billion of stock last year. Building a website doesn’t cost very much money, but if it’s the right website it generates a lot of money.
economic rents
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It's like beautiful that the problem of self reference is everywhere if you look for it. There is something so profound about, across any number of domains, the strange and subtle effects of the simple observation that "any sufficiently complicated system will to be able to attempt evaluate itself".
and while, on a philosophical, near spiritual level, I think this is exceptionally interesting I WOULD LIKE TO PONDER THESE MYSTERIES IN A CONTEXT THAT DOES NOT INVOLVE "THE CI/CD PIPELINE IS BROKEN"
akkadian temple priestess c. 2000BCE performing sacrifices, praying that her god will bless her with the knowledge of the right words and rituals that will make future sacrifices pleasing to her god. and feeling vaguely silly about the whole thing.
the prefix /b/ means 1-dimensional ("bar code"), and the prefix /kju/ means 2-dimensional ("QR code"). noticing this, many scholars have lost their sanity believing in and trying to find a way to continue the pattern. "there has to be a timeline times square time cube thing here, i know it", said one such scholar, before trailing off, muttering something about how a certain cartesian product of a 2-dimensional object and a 1-dimensional object results in a /kjub/
One pitfall when trying to analyze fantasy settings based on real world history is ignoring all of the worldbuilding implications the magic has, and I notice some posts here are maybe a bit over-eager about sharing such information to the point where they fall into it.
For example, posts saying that fantasy settings where gender equality and queer people are normalized are unrealistic because in real life the child mortality rate was very high and etc.
Except they're talking about a story is not set in Real Life Medieval Europe but in a world with versatile healing magic made accessible even to the poor to some degree through church charity or government public health institutions, and even spells or magical items that can instantly and completely transition someone.
Or that one post that was going around about how expecting the demon army to surrender after the defeat of the demon king is "great man theory" but in pretty much all fantasy settings that have such a thing as a demon king he's usually a demigod who can legitimately solo armies, is physically near-invulnerable, and obliterate entire cities.
Killing the demon king in such a setting would be less like assassinating the president and more like erasing the enemy's nuclear weapons. It's actually credible that the balance of power might start to shift from there even ignoring the effects on morale.
If you ignore stuff like that you might actually be engaging with the setting less than the rationalist fanfic writers.
dawn dimmadome? wife of doug dimmadome, owner of the dimmsdale dimmadome?
actually she took the dimmadome in the dimmadivorce
mozzarella and parmesan is kind of like the age gap yuri of cheese
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Fucking prepare yourself for this one
